New on PlayStation Store: LEGO Marvel’s Avengers, The Witness, This War of Mine

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Another week, another busy release slate on PlayStation Store, and we’ve some real gems for you this week. Riding a wave of glowing reviews, Jonathan Blow’s long-in-the-making PS4 puzzle adventure The Witness arrives today. If that’s not your scene, LEGO Marvel’s Avengers also drops this week, as does the acclaimed This War of Mine: The Little Ones, which offers a unique perspective on the horrors of armed conflict.

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Hi everyone. Sorry for the slight delay in posting this week’s Store post. A quick word…

As many of you have noticed, as of last week we are no longer quoting price information on our regular PlayStation Store updates. Instead, we’ve asked you to click on the hyperlink for each title to go to its listing on PlayStation Store and find the price in your region.

Obviously this is not as straightforward as just seeing the price listed in the blog post, and we understand the frustration many of you have expressed at the change. However, it’s a change we’ve made for a reason, and I want to offer you a bit more background on what that is.

Here at SCEE, we cater for a huge number of territories across Europe and beyond, many of which use different currencies. In fact, we cater for about 20 different currencies across more than 30 countries. We’re both legally and ethically obliged not to be misleading in our communications, and by only listing prices in, say, £ and €, we are potentially g...

Hi everyone. Sorry for the slight delay in posting this week’s Store post. A quick word…

As many of you have noticed, as of last week we are no longer quoting price information on our regular PlayStation Store updates. Instead, we’ve asked you to click on the hyperlink for each title to go to its listing on PlayStation Store and find the price in your region.

Obviously this is not as straightforward as just seeing the price listed in the blog post, and we understand the frustration many of you have expressed at the change. However, it’s a change we’ve made for a reason, and I want to offer you a bit more background on what that is.

Here at SCEE, we cater for a huge number of territories across Europe and beyond, many of which use different currencies. In fact, we cater for about 20 different currencies across more than 30 countries. We’re both legally and ethically obliged not to be misleading in our communications, and by only listing prices in, say, £ and €, we are potentially giving gamers in territories who do not use those currencies a false impression of the cost of an item.

So we’re left with two options: either publish every currency price for every item, or ask you to click through to PlayStation Store to see an accurate local price, which is generated automatically based on your ISP’s location.

If you were to take a typical PlayStation Store promotion featuring around 100 discounted items, the blog post would have to feature around 2,000 separate prices to be compliant. That would not only be impractical to create, but it would also make the blog post very difficult to read.

Duly, we’ve made the difficult decision to remove pricing information and ask you to click through to PlayStation Store.

So, I hope that gives you some background into why the change has been made. We’re always looking for ways to improve how we communicate with our readers and customers, and the topic of PlayStation Store pricing is certainly something that will remain in our crosshairs. Thanks for your understanding, and your valuable feedback.

The store pre-order says released on 2nd March 2016.I would assume that was done by an informed decision and not just an estimate / guess though I’d also expect blog staff to be aware of dates given already on the store ;)

I want explanation for this too. Hopefully next week we see proper format on store update post.

Cheers for the first post explaining some things, though EU blog loses a lot value thanks to all legal mumbo-jumbo. They sure ain’t making you guys’ job easy, huh. Try to solve discount posts – just listing titles won’t do it. Something must be given instead of just taking away. Hopefully SCEE’s “translate-store-description-or-we-won’t-let-you-publish-in-all-countries” policy gets finally removed. I hate missing games for stupid rule. And all the other things we have gone through all these years.

And if you stop highlighting Vita games, I might stop reading blog after all these years. Just for principle. :p

There’s the problem with the new system I click through and see £49.99 and don’t know if it’s the ‘deal price’ or not (we’ve had some very bad discounts previously). Will I ever look again, I just may forget to but if I knew the correct price or % discount I’d probably be back.

Yes, there’s a guy who started a desperate “boycott” campaign on Facebook (hopefully not really followed) ages ago, because apparently they killed his parents and dog… just kidding, but he’s really that desperate. He’s the same guy who originally translated “Ys The Oath in Felghana”, but then went nuts like a decade ago (after another guy “leaked” his semi-complete English translation patch) and now made XSEED’s demise his only reason of life.

On the PS4 PS+ section it has Helldivers and Nom Nom Galaxy (which is in need of some of the PC updates) for Feburary. Both good little games, but unfortunately I own both already. Still good for those who haven’t played them yet.

Clicking the links would be fine if all the items had links and if the store had updated! Would like to know how much lego avengers and uncharted actually will be.There must be a database wita all this data, some kind of web based interface to filter it would solve these problems.

Thanks for the explanation. I personally think the store would benefit from a ‘New This Week’ section. Not recently added over the past month, not split by game/dlc/avatar/theme (sorting would make sense), just everything released this week.

Sorry to disapoint but rock band on twiter has said this is a mistake and no dlc this week these songs are from the 30 songs track from game.co.uk, rb4 game and istrument preorder for rb4 they said they are investigating why it wàs put up you might get them but i doubt it yet.

Hi, sorry to inform you buy it was once again delayed. Sadly it got delayed with no specific date of release.

If you really want to play CiV Rev 2+ I suggest importing R3 version of it. By R3 I mean Asian version. It has english subs and has retail release. You can buy it from Play Asia and from what I heard soon also via Video Game Plus (which is awesome btw)

Lol they removed my comment. This is low SCEE… People should start a petition against you or something, can’t believe that most of them are sitting in silence and accepting this. Tweet this out, tell everyone how low SCEE sunk.

Hey,Do you have an update about the PS VITA Netflix App? Netflix is operating in 130 new territories as of this month, and the PS4 and PS3 catched up quick and opened the App for download. But the Vita version (which exist in America) is yet to be availble.

Soul Sacrifice Japanese Language Pack has disappeared from the store. Only Soul Sacrifice Delta Japanese Language Pack is there. Any reason for it? It came with the game when you pre-ordered the game back when it released, and now i’m unable to download it. The game itself is there and all other DLC. Only the Language Pack is missing. Is it just another random error, just like Conception II last week?

First, will we be getting Saturday Morning RPG? There’s often no way of knowing which releases that are being announced for the rest of the world will ever make it here in the SCEE ghetto, and it’s getting tiresome waiting for games that are never gonna come here for no given reason (the most recent example I can think of is Taco Master on Vita but the list of games that aren’t on the PS Store that have been available elsewhere seems to be getting longer and longer).

Secondly, why are you fragmenting your own territories with regard to release dates? I’ve been kinda cool with having to wait for new releases three days after the rest of the western hemisphere as long it’s the same for all of SCEE’s customers but now you’re making exceptions for certain countries under your purview to get their software before the rest of us. It makes no sense whatsoever and I can’t help but think, given the preferential treatment that you are giving those countries , that the real reason ...

First, will we be getting Saturday Morning RPG? There’s often no way of knowing which releases that are being announced for the rest of the world will ever make it here in the SCEE ghetto, and it’s getting tiresome waiting for games that are never gonna come here for no given reason (the most recent example I can think of is Taco Master on Vita but the list of games that aren’t on the PS Store that have been available elsewhere seems to be getting longer and longer).

Secondly, why are you fragmenting your own territories with regard to release dates? I’ve been kinda cool with having to wait for new releases three days after the rest of the western hemisphere as long it’s the same for all of SCEE’s customers but now you’re making exceptions for certain countries under your purview to get their software before the rest of us. It makes no sense whatsoever and I can’t help but think, given the preferential treatment that you are giving those countries , that the real reason for the lack of pricing on your weekly updates now is that you can charge different prices per country.

The above wouldn’t be a problem if your systems were truly multiregion. Yes, we can play games purchased from anywhere in the world, but that just means that we won’t be able to purchase any compatible DLC to work with those games (which, since there are no notifications warning us, means that anyone who has bought a PS4 game from another territory, whilst on holiday for example, will normally waste money at least once buying DLC from your store that is just useless code that won’t be recognised by the game (for me that happened with LittleBigPlanet for PS3 after purchasing while on holiday in the USA, prompting a need to buy it again over here)).

Please can you start treating your customers fairly, as I’m starting to regret setting up a SCEE account, particularly when the most basic Google search can lead me to setting up an SCEA account, as I would be given a larger and more varied choice of games, cheaper and earlier on all of my Playstation systems, especially Vita, and particularly after last year’s Rocksmith debacle that killed my enthusiasm for that software.

For Saturday Morning RPG, we are waiting for the developers to submit a version of the game for SCEE, much like with Towerfall: Ascension on PlayStation Vita. We will update when we have more information.

With regard to the territories we cover and release dates, this largely comes down to the decision of the publishers. I understand that you are looking for a more in-depth answer, but I personally cannot go into much more detail at this time.

Thanks for the reply, Fran. As unsatisfying as it is, it’s nice to have.

I would understand the idea of it coming down to the decision of the publishers if it were held true everywhere else. I know you probably won’t be able to provide the answer to the following, but how is this only true for SCEE’s store? If the same were true for Microsoft or Steam, or even other territories in SCE, then it would be a lot easier to swallow this extremely bitter pill, but it simply isn’t. The only thing different in the equation for all of these instances is SCEE.

As far as waiting for developers to resubmit the game to you, as is the case for Saturday Morning RPG and Towerfall Ascension, it sounds like the best we can hope for is that the game makes enough money in SCEA to afford the costs of resubmitting (and maybe resubmitting again, and again, as was the case with Costume Quest 2) while still being financially viable for an indie developer to continue doing what they do. As a company that has ...

Thanks for the reply, Fran. As unsatisfying as it is, it’s nice to have.

I would understand the idea of it coming down to the decision of the publishers if it were held true everywhere else. I know you probably won’t be able to provide the answer to the following, but how is this only true for SCEE’s store? If the same were true for Microsoft or Steam, or even other territories in SCE, then it would be a lot easier to swallow this extremely bitter pill, but it simply isn’t. The only thing different in the equation for all of these instances is SCEE.

As far as waiting for developers to resubmit the game to you, as is the case for Saturday Morning RPG and Towerfall Ascension, it sounds like the best we can hope for is that the game makes enough money in SCEA to afford the costs of resubmitting (and maybe resubmitting again, and again, as was the case with Costume Quest 2) while still being financially viable for an indie developer to continue doing what they do. As a company that has had massive benefits from being “indie-friendly” (and arguably wouldn’t be in the dominant position that you are without this sentiment), how does hurting indie developers in this way tally with your message? Why can’t the submission process be dealt with by SCE centrally, like it would be in other companies on their formats, so that if someone is buying a PS4 or Vita they know that they have as much chance of playing a game as someone in another country, who has probably paid less for their console, their PS+ and their games?

As I’ve said before, this territory is becoming a ghetto that is hurting gamers, developers and eventually Sony when staying a Playstation customer becomes too restrictive and expensive for those under the SCEE umbrella while other options are available and I personally don’t want SCEE screwing up Sony’s safest territory thinking that it’s so safe that they can get away with treating their customers and third-party developers this way. That’s how Microsoft threw away their lead from the last generation.

This blog looks dead. Maybe you could add a short description about each game to make up for what’s missing, otherwise there’d be no point in this blog. Coz I don’t know about most of the games you post, I have to look it up to see if it’s good.

You could always just express the discount from a base currency (say the us dollar) then list the conversion rates for the currencies in the territory each week. Admittedly it would be unusually transparent, but it could be done?

Discount percentages vary between countries for some reason, we’re always told the SCEE region is difficult, but with things like doing individual percentages per country it comes across a little self inflicted.

i have problem whith store prices overpriced+ % reduction of = normal prices from real storewhy you curency of psn games not same like real stores !!!!to me = simpelno corect prices in store = no buygames more then 1 wheek later in euro then some other contry insite europe = no buyexcl . to ms. ore nintendo more then 1 month = no buyno psn cards in real store = no buy

So instead of most people seeing the price, now nobody gets to. You ask us to click the link but most items in the list don’t have a link and when I click it, it goes to a 404 page. I’d actually like to know what the “deal” for the Uncharted collection is but I can’t.

Yeah, the links don’t work most of the time. I just searched on the Playstation Store itself.It is 29.99€ now.

I think it has more to do with the work it takes to find out all the prices and because of how inconsistent the prices are, they can’t even put percentages for the sales because people will complain if it is less in their country.

The think which I find weird is that The Witness is not listed under the “new this month” section in the store.

Ok, The Witness is in the list, but it has been put in between the titles of days ago.I check that list quite regularly, but it is not the first time I missed some things because they are not always put in order they are put on the store (although I do sort by date).

Any news about letting us change the country on our account? At the moment, the only “solution” I’ve been given by your customer support is creating and having 2 accounts. I already have them and I can download the TV apps with the new account, but then I can only use the free ones on my original account. I want to use the French OCS app on my PS4, so yeah, I could keep one account for all the games/balance/friends I have, and just pay OCS on the new one. However, you also have a -20% discount if you’re a PS Plus member, so my options are: a) paying full price, because I cannot change the country on my account, because of reasons; b) changing my PS Plus subscription to my 2nd account; c) subscribing to PS Plus on both accounts; d) buying an XBOX One, since Microsoft has adapted to the modern world and allows you to change your region/country.

I would like to see an option to edit the date of birth in case one wrote a “fake” one, still remembers it, and want to change it without having to contact the customer support, too. Not my case, but still.

Why the delay on releasing the War Thunder “The League ‘Dog tag’” DLC?NA has it for about 2 weeks now. Tournament is in the last rounds this weekend and it makes little sense buying this that late.I feel just like an 3rd class customer by the delay you caused.

Because the removal of the link to US blog was so highly successful in deterring EU customers from reading the US blog. This is SCEE’s answer to everything sweeping things out of view of your customer and hopes no one knows that large mound in the middle of the floor. Removing all info and pricing is sure to be popular that way we can’t compare prices between countries in the same region (or at least by SCEE logic). Perhaps you should have applied such reasoning to the Singstar debacle but in return made it red and even more noticeable.

If I was a dev I wouldn’t even bother releasing in SCEE territory. The point of contact between your customers and this blog is shambolic at best. The US has a post called The Drop where not only does it announce the titles to be released on the store but gives a description. Why is this so difficult ? Why can’t there be a post like that for EU?

Will you please explain why the PS3 system of booting you out of the store has now infected the vita? Lo...

Because the removal of the link to US blog was so highly successful in deterring EU customers from reading the US blog. This is SCEE’s answer to everything sweeping things out of view of your customer and hopes no one knows that large mound in the middle of the floor. Removing all info and pricing is sure to be popular that way we can’t compare prices between countries in the same region (or at least by SCEE logic). Perhaps you should have applied such reasoning to the Singstar debacle but in return made it red and even more noticeable.

If I was a dev I wouldn’t even bother releasing in SCEE territory. The point of contact between your customers and this blog is shambolic at best. The US has a post called The Drop where not only does it announce the titles to be released on the store but gives a description. Why is this so difficult ? Why can’t there be a post like that for EU?

Will you please explain why the PS3 system of booting you out of the store has now infected the vita? Look at download list NP error, manually search for specific game NP error, enter the store NP error, look at sales NP error.

As the games offered on plus have been poor, do you think you could at least invest in a better online experience one where purchasing items on our PlayStation devices actually works. SCEE does realise that if they aren’t selling items then people get laid off as people will shop elsewhere if you implement an antagonistic shopping experience. If this is some type of conceptual art experience then it has already failed, should remove all posts etc and just offer a blank white page like Corbusier apartment block or Ballard’s dystopian horror within that architecture.

Although Fred’s comment is a step in the right direction by actually giving some reasoning behind what SCEE are doing and why, it’s simply not enough. I do applaud him for doing it as the blog team could have simply sat back a suffered the torrent of negative comments to follow.

However, we do need more. There are hundreds of questions continually raised on this blog in the comments, which continue to go unanswered, to name a few:– Pricing vs US/JP store– Release dates in different territiories– DLC not being available in one store vs others

Can’t we have some sort of forum or mechanism where frequent questions are consolidated, based on popularity (a simple poll could accomplish this) and the blog team actually provide a DETAILED answer? Surely it can’t be that difficult, especially if SIE wishes to deliver what it has set out in it’s recent announcement.

“SIE will better respond to the needs of consumers and the evolving digital market to deliver unparalleled interactive entert...

Although Fred’s comment is a step in the right direction by actually giving some reasoning behind what SCEE are doing and why, it’s simply not enough. I do applaud him for doing it as the blog team could have simply sat back a suffered the torrent of negative comments to follow.

However, we do need more. There are hundreds of questions continually raised on this blog in the comments, which continue to go unanswered, to name a few:– Pricing vs US/JP store– Release dates in different territiories– DLC not being available in one store vs others

Can’t we have some sort of forum or mechanism where frequent questions are consolidated, based on popularity (a simple poll could accomplish this) and the blog team actually provide a DETAILED answer? Surely it can’t be that difficult, especially if SIE wishes to deliver what it has set out in it’s recent announcement.

“SIE will better respond to the needs of consumers and the evolving digital market to deliver unparalleled interactive entertainment experiences under the PlayStation brand.”

The consumers require a method to communicate their needs and follow a plan to ensure they are actioned accordingly, not just hope that comments in a blog post might be picked up.

Like I said, this is a step in the right direction, but, we need more.

The value of the update post here could be greatly reduced by others sourcing and pricing their own lists, restoring the convenience that will no longer appear here. We are not that far removed from a time that fanpages gained traction by offering DL dashboard theme previews, after the platform holder was found content to leave its audience buying blind.

Also, if the aim is to put more eyes on games, but you don’t want to be accused of misleading pricing details – why not include links to each item on the browser PlayStation Store so that games attracting interest can be discovered (and accurate info found) by each visitor in their local currency/language?

As you point out, you’ve added a little inconvenience, which might put people o...

The value of the update post here could be greatly reduced by others sourcing and pricing their own lists, restoring the convenience that will no longer appear here. We are not that far removed from a time that fanpages gained traction by offering DL dashboard theme previews, after the platform holder was found content to leave its audience buying blind.

Also, if the aim is to put more eyes on games, but you don’t want to be accused of misleading pricing details – why not include links to each item on the browser PlayStation Store so that games attracting interest can be discovered (and accurate info found) by each visitor in their local currency/language?

As you point out, you’ve added a little inconvenience, which might put people off. Links to gather the relevant details ought to help give you back your service’s edge.

Folks, it’s been brought to my attention that some posters have had their comments moderated this week, and are questioning why.

As I hope you can clearly see in this thread and others, we welcome constructive criticism and negative feedback. Please, keep it coming. Just because we don’t reply to every comment does not mean it isn’t taken on board, shared and discussed. On the contrary.

However, trolling, flaming, or use of threatening or abusive language towards other posters, blog authors or SCEE staff will result in the post being removed. Similarly, spamming (posting the same thing over and over again) will attract attention of moderators – as will comments about comments being deleted.

I stand by our moderation team and personally advocate a zero tolerance stance. The internet can be unpleasant enough at the best of times, and any attempt to lower the level of discourse is not welcome here.

Folks, it’s been brought to my attention that some posters have had their comments moderated this week, and are questioning why.

As I hope you can clearly see in this thread and others, we welcome constructive criticism and negative feedback. Please, keep it coming. Just because we don’t reply to every comment does not mean it isn’t taken on board, shared and discussed. On the contrary.

However, trolling, flaming, or use of threatening or abusive language towards other posters, blog authors or SCEE staff will result in the post being removed. Similarly, spamming (posting the same thing over and over again) will attract attention of moderators – as will comments about comments being deleted.

I stand by our moderation team and personally advocate a zero tolerance stance. The internet can be unpleasant enough at the best of times, and any attempt to lower the level of discourse is not welcome here.

Can you not honestly see why you are getting so much dislike lately, the way this blog has gone downhill over the last twelve months is embarrassing and more and more people are getting fed up. It’s all very well being the best but the trick is staying there and its getting harder and harder to believe sony really cares about the players any more

I understand the issue of showing all prices but why not just show the euro price, then people (like me in the uk) have to click through to get their local one BUT still have an idea of pricing or discount level.

For me if i cant see a price for a discounted item i’m unlikely to bother clicking through, its usually the price that gets me interested as… lets be honest… if I wanted it that much i’d have already brought it at full price.